Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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More Bell Hooks Quotes
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If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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